Map in the instrument cluster turns black with CarPlay ABRP 5.5
First of all my compliments on your first try to start using the HUD! So for me it worked the first time until I turned onto the highway. The HUD turned black in my BMW i4 M50, thereby losing the detailed navigation.
- Where does this happen?
- ABRP version number (found at bottom of settings menu)
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Manuel (ABRP)
Nov 28, 2024
Hi and thanks for reporting this. I just wanna make sure we are talking about the same thing, what is HUD exactly in your case?
HUD on CarPlay means the simplified direction icons in your cluster or projected on the windshield, so no map but only arrows and distance, time….
Maybe you can take a photo and give us some more details on what you did exactly when this happened? Hopefully this helps us on reproducing the issue and fixing it.
marvin
Nov 28, 2024
I am talking about the ‘map in the instrument cluster’ of my BMW i4 M50 car. This is the map that, when first starting the car, works but then after some time (~ 10 mins) started glitching and then went to black.
With glitching, I mean that first the map disappeared but only an indication of the next highway exit was visible (in a blue box) and below there was the text visible that ‘a route planner was in use with apple carplay’ (thus is not the exact text, but something like that was displayed.
Next, I stopped at a gas station and I got out of the car, closed it and came back after a few minutes. Then I started the car, started carplay and started the app ABRP. This did not resolve the issue. I could see the map in the ‘center display’ but the ‘map in the instrument cluster’ remained black, without any information.
Then, after a short drive, I stopped again and then rebooted the instrument cluster and center display by holding the volume button down for 30 seconds.
After reboot, everything seemed to be working again, but…. after 10 mins or so, the whole ABRP app in Carplay re-started over and over again, with 2 to 5 mins intervals. When the app started, the map in the instrument cluster was visible but the route guidance was not visible there. The route guidance was only visible in the center display (sometimes detailed route guidance and sometimes detailed route guidance).
So in the end, I had to shut down the ABRP app because it kept on glitching.
Result is that I now cannot use the app and have to wait until the issue is fixed 🤷♂️
marvin
Nov 28, 2024
correction on 3rd sentence from the bottom → “sometimes detailed route guidance and sometimes high level overview of the remaining route”
Unfortunately I did not create a photo
Manuel (ABRP)
Nov 29, 2024
Thank you very much for the detailed description. One more thing, what device are you using and what iOS version is it running?
In case it is some iOS 17 version make sure to update to iOS 18, we experienced already a few bugs on iOS 17 regarding to CarPlay.
marvin
Nov 29, 2024
I am using an iPhone 16 Pro with iOS version 18.1.1
Manuel (ABRP)
Dec 1, 2024
Ok that one was working quite nice on my simulator tests, sadly I don’t have a i4 M50 😉 nor any other car with CarPlay (cluster) support.
Apart from that I could identify some issues on the memory consumption, working on some improvements already.
Would you like to join our TestFlight program and get early access on some test builds?
marvin
Dec 2, 2024
Sure, add me to the test flight 👍.
Manuel (ABRP)
Dec 3, 2024
Cool, enter our TF using this link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/uX9LuvcQ
make sure to test 5.5.1 3142, that build has the cluster improvements.
marvin
Dec 3, 2024
Ok, done. I’ll start testing by tomorrow
Katya S.
Nov 29, 2024
Hi @mz6p55yt9q,
Thank you for reporting. Do you mean that the HUD turns black?